CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Workshop on Computational Advances
for Next Generation Sequencing (CANGS 2011)
in conjunction with ICCABS 2011
Feb. 4, 2011, Holiday Inn - in the Walt Disney World Resort,
Orlando, Florida
Workshop Organizers:
Ion Mandoiu , University of Connecticut, ion from engr.uconn.edu
Alex Zelikovsky, Georgia State University, alexz from cs.gsu.edu
Massively parallel DNA and RNA sequencing have become widely
available, reducing the cost by several orders of magnitude and
placing the capacity to generate gigabases to terabases of
sequence data into the hands of individual investigators. These
next-generation technologies have the potential to dramatically
accelerate biological and biomedical research by enabling the
comprehensive analysis of genomes and transcriptomes to become
inexpensive, routine and widespread. The exploding volume of data
has spurred the development of novel algorithmic approaches for
primary analyses of sequence data in such areas as error
correction, de novo genome assembly, novel transcript discovery,
virus quasispecies assembly, etc. This workshop will bring
together specialists to discuss the various mathematical and
computational challenges presented by next-generation sequencing
technologies.
This meeting is by invitation only. If you would like to inquire
about the possibility of being invited, please contact the
organizers by January 10, 2011.
Workshop Registration Fees:
IEEE Members: $300
IEEE Non-members and late registration (after Jan. 20, 2011):
$400
IEEE Student members: $100
IEEE Student non-members: $150
IEEE Life/Retired members: $100
Registration to the workshop has to be done through regonline
(https://www.reg-site.com/con-reg/default.asp?Conid=116)